ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 works to build teachers’ and educators’ comfort levels by providing an overview of a comprehensive sex education curriculum. It introduces ten categories of a comprehensive sex education, including Healthy Relationships, Safe and Appropriate Boundaries, Personal Safety, Private and Public Behaviors and Places, Puberty, Dating (or Crushes, for younger students), Human Reproduction, Pregnancy Prevention, Risks Associated with Sexual Activity, and Gender and Sexual Orientation. It explains why these categories are foundational and offers general strategies for approaching topics within each category. The chapter also encourages readers to foster and practice the nonreactive, nonjudgmental attitude through which a comprehensive sex education curriculum must be delivered.
